Tjanpi Desert Weavers

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is the dynamic arts employment programme of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council. Tjanpi (meaning grass) began as a series of basket-weaving workshops held on Ngaanyatjarra Lands by the Council in 1995. Today, over 400 women from twenty eight NPY member communities are making baskets and sculptures out of grass and other materials. Tjanpi weavers have proven consistently innovative in their sculptural work, drawing inspiration from everyday community life, as well as Tjukurrpa stories, to produce quirky, animated figures, animals and objects. Tjanpi is now a thriving enterprise which produces baskets, beads and bush medicine. Tjanpi products are freighted worldwide with all profits from sales going back into further development of the project. You can visit our gallery or do one of our workshops.
For further information visit: www.tjanpi.com.au